Grub v2 manual
The pages contributed here (FranklinPiat/*) were an attempt to write some documentation for Grub2. This documentation isn't updated anymore (since grub2-1.96+20080203 approximately) |
Manpages
Grub manpages are (currently) developed on this wiki :
- FranklinPiat/grub modules.manpage
- FranklinPiat/grub-emu.manpage
- FranklinPiat/grub-install.manpage
- FranklinPiat/grub-mkdevicemap.manpage
- FranklinPiat/grub-mkimage.manpage
- FranklinPiat/grub-mkrescue.manpage
- FranklinPiat/grub-probe.manpage
- FranklinPiat/grub-setup.manpage
- FranklinPiat/grub.cfg.manpage
- FranklinPiat/update-grub.manpage
Jargon
- pc
In Grub jargon, the term PC is used to refer to a system with a BIOS (as designed back in 1980, still in use on todays PCs, where the computer boots in 16bit mode and can address... 2^16=1MB of memory ! ).
- efi
EFI architecture, is a replacement for PC'BIOS. It was originally, developed by Intel for ia64 architecture. It's used by Intel Macs. read more on Wikipedia's Extensible_Firmware_Interface.
- ieee1275
also known as Open Firmware, or OpenBoot, read Wikipedia's IEEE1275.
- linuxbios
now known as Coreboot, read Wikipedia's coreboot.
- of
- ?? on some PowerPCs.
- i386
- I386 has a specific meaning in Grub jargon : It has nothing to do with 32bits vs 64bits. It is used to designate any [i386|x86_64|amd64|ia32|ia64] systems that behave like plain old i386 system at boot time. It includes most current "regular" PC.